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AP – With the oil well that had been spewing into the Gulf of Mexico plugged from the top and BP PLC and federal officials pondering whether the final plug, or “bottom kill,” is needed, local officials fear national disengagement from what remains a crisis of unknown proportions.
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Gulf leaders wary over wavering on final plug
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BusinessWeek – LDK Solar: Soleil Securities maintained a hold rating and 6 price target on shares of LDK Solar , the Chinese manufacturer of wafers used in solar power cells, on Aug.
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Stock Picks: LDK Solar, Prudential, Verizon
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It is almost time for the kids to head back to school! Here at About.com we’ve been busy preparing lots of great ideas for back to school. Our About.com Hobbies Guides have all sorts of back-to-school projects and ideas for you to think about, contests for you to enter, and even more activities for you to participate in! Check it out. At About.com Cross Stitch, Connie has a number of Back-to-School-Themed Cross Stitch Projects ranging from a cute little blackboard sampler to a trio of samplers based on school subject themes like math, science, and language arts.
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Back to School
When it comes to the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama (my hometown), I do have some fond memories of the place. As mentioned on a recent episode of Weekend Justice , I went to Space Camp the first year it was available. The company my parents worked for used to rent the whole place out for their Xmas party.
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A Visit to the Space and Rocket Center
AP – In a nail-biting day across the Gulf Coast, engineers struggled to make sense of puzzling pressure readings from the bottom of the sea Friday to determine whether BP’s capped oil well was holding tight. Halfway through a critical 48-hour window, the signs were promising but far from conclusive.
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BP, scientists try to make sense of well puzzle
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AP – BP’s oil spill notoriety is reviving unwelcome attention from Congress on another issue: whether the oil company sought the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi to help get a $900 million exploration agreement with Libya off the ground.
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Senators look for smoking gun in BP-Lockerbie link
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The Christian Science Monitor – As President Obama prepares to sign the second historic reform bill of his administration – health care in March, finance reform next week – Republicans are offering their own answers to why jobs have not recovered and enlisting business groups to help make their case.
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GOP’s jobs ideas: Keep Bush tax cuts, freeze regulations
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“MONKEYS!” I immediately dive under my desk and reach for my Etheric Disruptor. I take a breath and pop up ready to fire. Instead of a group of rampaging terrorist gorillas, it is the Junior Science Villain staring at me with a look that says “This must one of these grown up things I don’t understand yet.” I relax and was going to explain to him that we were having some problem with the more radical elements of simian culture after Dindrane make some disparaging comments about gorillas during a Weekend Justice
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The Young Evil Genius Wants To Color
ARTINFO – William Kentridge, the South African artist whose self-professed “stone-age” animations have dealt with apartheid and its legacy as seen through the lives of humanistically-sketched individuals, was selected as the winner of this year’s Kyoto Prize. The award, similar in status to Nobel Prize in Japan, is bestowed annually by the Inamori Foundation to recognize three visionaries in the categories of arts and philosophy, advanced technology, and basic sciences.
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William Kentridge Wins 2010 Kyoto Prize
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AP – Oil poured out of a cap that robots adjusted over the gusher in the Gulf, though some was being collected, as the slow-motion catastrophe spread deeper into the marshes and beaches of four states along the coast.
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Oil pours from cap over Gulf gusher, some captured
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AP – Dogged for being too calm in crisis, President Barack Obama unleashed frustration for all to see Friday, warning BP it had better do right by the people whose lives it has wrecked.
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Calm no more, Obama lashes out at BP on Gulf visit
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What were the odds: Sonenshein’s encounter with Martin Gardner By Bobby Warren On 5-22-2010 the world lost one of kind with the passing of Martin Gardner in Norman, Okla. He was 95. Gardner touched lives in an array of worlds, including magic, math, puzzles, logic, skepticism, and pseudoscience
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Martin Gardner Remembered
AP – Congress called BP and its drilling partners to account Tuesday for a “cascade of failures” behind the spreading Gulf oil spill, zeroing in on a crucial chain of events at the deep-sea wellhead just before an explosion consumed the rig and set off the catastrophic rupture.
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Execs grilled on oil spill ‘cascade of failures’
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AP – The Obama administration is proposing to split up an Interior Department agency that oversees offshore drilling, as part of its response to the Gulf Coast oil spill.
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Salazar urges splitting energy agency
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AP – Hydrogen fuel cell manufacturer Plug Power Inc. on Tuesday posted a bigger first-quarter loss on higher production costs and expenses for products that were shipped but not recorded as revenue under lease deals.
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Plug Power 1Q loss widens on production costs
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Every week we give you the “Mental Sorbet” treatment–the idea being that if you start your week off with a mind-destroying piece of WTFery, you’ll be well armed for the other unnatural shocks that the work week has in store. It’s like playing Mithradates with your sanity. Enjoy
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Your Monday Morning Mental Sorbet: That Yellow Satan
AP – The calamitous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico isn’t just a mess for the people who live or work on the coast. If you drink coffee, eat shrimp, like bananas or plan to buy a new set of tires, you could end up paying more because of the disaster
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Attention shoppers: Gulf spill could affect you
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AP – A federal law may limit how much BP has to pay for damages such as lost wages and economic suffering in the Gulf Coast oil spill, despite President Barack Obama’s assurances that taxpayers will not be on the hook.
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Federal law may limit BP liability in oil spill
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AP – Looking for a political and policy victory, President Barack Obama on Wednesday pushed energy proposals designed to attract allies and opponents alike, calling for increased ethanol production and new technology to limit pollution from the use of coal.
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Obama pushes energy plan that GOP may support
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The 21st hottest search terms on the google today Prius recall http://www.google.com/trends/hottren…q=prius+recall I watched BBC earlier tonight and their UK spokesman a Mr.BrownLee said the company knew the accelerator peddle was a ‘quality’ issue rather than a ‘safety’ issue back in 2008! 
And they have just recalled 3.8 million of the worldwide already that included 2007 to latest Camry. Look out Toyota, you’re in deep doo-doo in the Good Ol US of Lawsuit. I’m expected a 1971 Ford Pinto UK House of Lords outcome on this one
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3.8 Million Toyota Prius cars recalled
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MusiCares Person of the Year Tribute to Neil Young: Performances by Crosby, Stills and Nash, Elvis Costello, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Elton John and…
The Christian Science Monitor – The Obama administration announced Friday that its much-lauded mortgage modification plan has had a disappointing start, helping far fewer Americans stay in their homes than originally hoped.
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Federal mortgage modification plan disappointing so far
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Wolven here again. I’m back from the wilds of a future time where the southeast portion of the United States is the desert it only pretends to be in our present autumn months, and the cities of Atlanta, Charlotte, and Birmingham have the beaches they’ve always wanted. From the considerable effort I was having to exert to follow the rule “never read your own press,” I gather that people had… Feelings, one way or another, about my premier piece, here on Need Coffee.
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Not Really a Top 5: Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Novelists Who Use Dreams to Crack Your Head Open (In All the Right Ways)
It can finally be revealed: a super secret technological thinktank was recently assembled to solve the world’s problems in regards to space. This team consisted of Paul Sabourin from Paul and Storm , our very own Doc Ezra, Ken Plume of Quick Stop Entertainment and myself. And I want you to know: we pull no punches.
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SPACE! (The Podcast)
Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks: Applications to Biology, Computer Science, and the Social Sciences Publisher: Birkhauser Boston | Language: English | ISBN:0817647503 | 307 pages | Data: 2009 | PDF | This self-contained book systematically explores the statistical dynamics on and of complex networks having relevance across a large number of scientific disciplines. Almost any large-scale system, either naturally occurring or man-made, can be viewed as a complex network of interacting entit
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Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks by Niloy Ganguly
The Christian Science Monitor prints its final edition on Friday, bringing a 100-year run as a daily newspaper to an end but beginning a new era as an online publication. The Boston-based Monitor announced plans in October to eliminate its daily print edition and become the first national US newspaper to adopt a Web-based strategy. Like other US dailies, the Monitor had been losing readership and print advertising revenue to online media for years and circulation was hovering around 50,000 by the time the decision was made to shut down the presses.
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The Future of Traditional Newspapers Uncertain
How to Make MASSIVE Amounts of Money In Record Time With Your Own eBook (Whether You Wrote It Or Not!) If you have a burning desire to make money and the ability to follow a proven, step-by-step system, then you can make as much money as you want with ebooks. Follow the simple, basic steps laid out in this breakthrough new course: eBook Secrets Exposed! How to Make Massive Amounts of Money In Record Time With Your Own eBook! Using the easy time-saving methods Jim Edwards will show you in the course, you can be online with your own ebook making money in two to four weeks! Here are just a few of the many important things you’ll learn: 1. Jim Edwards’ secret 5-Step Ultimate eBook Success Formula
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eBook Secrets Exposed!
Streambox, Inc. today announced that the Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility (CSSF) is using the Streambox ACT-L3T Portable Video Transport system to stream real-time video and audio from its ROPOS (Remotely Operated Platform for Ocean Sciences) underwater research vehicle to an on-shore lab and control room over a VSAT satellite system
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Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility Uses Streambox